High School Starting Times

A recent article in The New York Times about teen driving (“New Lessons To Pave a Road to Safety,” Monday April 9, page D5), to which I will respond in my next post (because it says some things with which I disagree), describes a recent report into Journal...

Air Traffic Control

We have been reading recently about air traffic controllers falling asleep on the job.  Thinking of teen drivers as pilots and parents as air traffic controllers is not a bad analogy, actually.  Parents should consider every time their teen proposes to get behind the...

My Answers To The Distracted Driving And Texting Quiz

Did you take it?  How did you do?  Here are my answers: 1.  In general, distracted driving means hands off the wheel, eyes off the road, or mind off the driving situation. 2.  A psychologist may have a more precise definition, but when applied to driving...

Dr. Tim’s Distracted Driving And Texting Quiz

In preparation for an upcoming presentation to parents and students at a high school about distracted driving and texting while driving, I have put together a quiz, fourteen questions.  My purpose is to improve understanding and stimulate thinking about these topics. ...

The Physics of Skidding

I am not really a science guy;  I took Physics for Poets to get one of my final credits to graduate from college.  One result of my ignorance on this subject was trying, after my son’s accident, to understand why cars so often skid.  For quite a while ,  I...

The March to Madness Picks Up Speed

A year ago in early March I picked up on the theme of the NCAA Basketball Tournament, known as March Madness, to describe the absurdity of traffic safety groups working hard to curb texting and distracted driving while auto manufacturers add to the inside of new...